Anglo-Spanish rivalries and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. The aim of this panelis to examine the ways in which U.S., Mexican, and other authors have employedthe historical rivalry between England and Spain to substantiate rhetoricalclaims to North American territories. For example, New England writer EdwardEverett Hale deploys throughout his novel Philip Nolan’s Friends the literarytraditions of England and Spain in the manner of a cultural duel for regionalsupremacy. Alexander Hewatt loads his history of South Carolina withpropaganda against the colony’s international neighbor, Spanish Florida. Howcan we trace the development of U.S. racial Anglo-Saxonism through theseretrospective references to European contexts and contemporaneous deploymentsof the European race for the continent of North America? How do European,creole, and mestizo identities and associations shift, form, and reform in thecenturies-long economic projects for domination of lands, products, and tradewith Indian nations in the Louisiana, Florida, Texas and other Anglo-Spanishborderlands. Please send your CV and a 500-word abstract to Hsuan Hsu athsuan.hsu_at_yale.edu or Susan Kalter at smkalte_at_ilstu.edu by January 12, 2007.